Events Archive | S4 | Brown University

2022-2023

Spring

Human Mobility Analytics and Geoprivacy Issues on Using Location Big Data
Thu Mar 9

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Song Gao

University of Wisconsin-Madison
The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China
Fri Feb 24

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Nick R. Smith

Barnard College, Columbia University
Social Mobility and the Structure of Cities
Thu Feb 16

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Dylan Connor

Arizona State University

Fall

Mobility Analysis for Pandemic Prevention Strategies (MAPPS): Using mobility and social network data to predict and prevent future pandemics.
Thu Nov 10

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Mark Lurie

Brown University
Bayesian Spatial Multilevel Modeling of Demographic and Health Surveys Data
Fri Nov 4

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Guixing Wei

Brown University
Access to opportunities of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments
Fri Oct 21

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Jongho Won

Brown University
Paving the Way: A Study of Historic Redlining and Contemporary Transportation Emissions in U.S. Cities
Fri Oct 7

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Rachel McKane

Brown University

2021-2022

Spring

Data Visualization Series:What GIS & Spatial Analysis can do for Health Research
Fri May 13

Webinar
Speakers:

Guixing Wei

Brown University
Local Schools, Civic Engagement, and Community Spirit in Small Towns
Fri Apr 29

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Monica Whitham

Oklahoma State University
Dave Van Riper, Director of Spatial Analysis, Minnesota Population Center
Thu Apr 28

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Dave Van Riper

Director of Spatial Analysis, Minnesota Population Center
A 'Ghetto' of One's Own: Communal Violence, Residential Segregation, and Group Education Outcomes in India
Fri Apr 22

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Aarushi Kalra

Brown University
Data Visualization Series:Data Visualization from 10,000 feet: A Quick Introduction to Visual Communication
Fri Apr 22

Webinar
Speakers:

Patrick Rashleigh,

Brown University
Separate and Unequal: New Findings from Census 2020
Thu Apr 21

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

John Logan

Brown University
New evidence on the effects of travel distance to abortion providers
Thu Mar 10

PSTC Seminar Room 205, Mencoff Hall
Speakers:

Caitilin Knowles Myers

Middlebury College

2020-2021

Fall

Biosocial Network Modeling to Increase Population Health Equity
Thu Oct 14

Zimmer Lounge (Maxcy Hall 010)
Speakers:

Aditya Khanna

Brown University
S4 Virtual Colloquium - S4 Postdoctoral Scholars
Fri Nov 13

Virtual Colloquium
Speakers:

Samuel Kye & H. Jacob Carlson
The Crisis within a Crisis: A Panel Discussion on COVID-19 and Renters in Rhode Island
Mon Nov 9

Webinar
Speakers:

Amelia Anthony & Phoebe Ayres

Brown University
INTERREGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND BIG DATA: STUDYING ANCIENT LANDSCAPES AT SCALE USING THE GEOSPATIAL PLATFORM FOR ANDEAN, CULTURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY (GEOPACHA)
Fri Oct 30

Webinar
Speakers:

PARKER VANVALKENBURGH

Brown University
Hidden Histories of U.S. Internationalists
Mon Oct 26
Speakers:

Samuel Zipp

Brown University
'Monstrous Giants of Infamous Repute': Wind-Powered Sugar Mills as Constructions of Control in Colonial Montserrat
Fri Oct 16

Virtual Colloquium
Speakers:

Miriam Rothenberg

Brown University
Visualizing the Holocaust
Thu Oct 15
Speakers:

Anne Kelly Knowles

University of Maine

Spring

The Effect of Location Based Subsidies on the Housing Market
Fri Mar 26

Virtual Colloquium
Speakers:

Juan Pablo Uribe

Brown University
Understanding Spatiotemporal Patterns in COVID-19 to Guide Local Public Health Action
Fri Feb 26

Virtual Colloquium
Speakers:

William Goedel

Brown University
Virtual Colloquium - Using GPS to Measure Community Mobility and Participation of Individuals with Disabilities
Fri Jan 29

Virtual Colloquium
Speakers:

Eugene Brusilovskiy

Temple University

2019-2020

Spring

IRS Spring Academy 2020

Tue May 26 to Fri May 29

Erkner, near Berlin
Speakers:

Jörg Sydow

Freie Universität, Berlin
[CANCELED!] Using GPS to Measure Community Mobility and Participation of Individuals with Disabilities
Fri Mar 20

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Eugene Brusilovskiy

Temple University
Northeast Computational Social Science meetup
Sat Mar 14

the top floor of the Media Lab building, MIT
Speakers:

Esteban Moro Egido

MIT Media Lab
[CANCELED!] China’s National Urbanization Program: Planning the End of the Village
Fri Mar 13

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Nick R. Smith

Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Migration, Urbanization, and Health: Insights from South Africa
Thu Mar 12

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Michael White

Professor of Sociology, Brown University
Chronic Childhood Undernutrition in Kenya: Examining Determinants from a Multilevel and Spatial Perspective
Thu Feb 13

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Kevin Mwenda

Assistant Professor of Population Studies, Brown University

Fall

From Spatial to Platial Data Science
Thu Nov 21

Data Science Initiative (DSI), 3rd Floor, 164 Angell Street
Speakers:

Grant Mckenzie

McGill University

2018-2019

Spring

Environmental Justice in the Post-Industrial Landscape
Thu May 2

Zimmer Lounge, Maxcy Hall
Speakers:

Thomas Marlow

Brown University
Unequal Displacement: Gentrification, Racial Stratification, and Residential Destinations
Tue Apr 23

Zimmer Lounge, Maxcy Hall
Speakers:

Jackelyn Hwang

Stanford University
Where the Sidewalks End: Poverty in an American Suburb
Tue Apr 9

Zimmer Lounge, Maxcy Hall
Speakers:

Alex Murphy

University of Michigan
Exploring Application of Spatial Analysis in Urban and Public Policy Research
Thu Mar 14

Zimmer Lounge, Maxcy Hall
Speakers:

Adriano Borges Costa

Fundação Getulio Vargas – Brazil
City Minimum Wages
Fri May 4

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Jorge Pérez Pérez

Economics Department, Brown University
Characterizing the spatial structure of US metropolitan employment using LODES data
Fri Apr 6

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Robert Manduca

Harvard University
Spaces of Segregation and Health: Complex Associations for Black Immigrant Mothers in New York City
Thu Mar 8

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Sara McLafferty

University of Illinois
Brown’s Spring 2018 Statistics Seminar Series
Mon Mar 5

121 S. Main Street, room 24
Speakers:

Eric Laber

North Carolina State University
Scott Allard – Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty
Mon Feb 12

Joukowsky Forum
Speakers:

Scott Allard

University of Washington
S4 Post-Doc Mini-Talks
Fri Feb 2

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Joseph Danko, Eric Seymour, and Daniel Schleith

Brown University

Fall

Segregation in Nineteenth Century Mumbai
Fri Dec 7

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Sukriti Issar

OSC, Sciences Po, Paris
Determinants of Equilibrium Particulate Exposure
Thu Nov 1

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Matthew Turner

Brown University
The Effects of Immigration on the Economy over the 20th Century: Lessons from the Closing and Re-opening of the Border
Thu Sep 27

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Leah Boustan

Princeton University

2017-2018

Fall

Considering Women and Children's Health in the Context of Climate Change: An Investigation of Birthweight, Temperature, and Precipitation in Africa
Thu Nov 2

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Kathryn Grace

University of Minnesota
Geography and GIS: Questions on Discipline and Innovation
Fri Oct 27

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Matt Wilson

University of Kentucky
Mostly pointless spatial econometrics
Fri Sep 15

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Henry Overman

London School of Economics

2016-2017

Spring

Introduction to GIS for Public Health
Thu Mar 23

School of Public Health (room 251)
Speakers:

Yi Qi

Brown University
Integrating Population and Environment Data: Terra Populus Project Workshop

Thu Mar 16 to Fri Mar 17

PSTC, Mencoff Hall, Seminar Room 205
Speakers:

Steven Manson

University of Minnesota
White shoes and happy cows: social networks and human-environment dynamics in agriculture
Fri Mar 17

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Steven M. Manson

University of Minnesota
Urban transportation in India: Mobility and accessibility
Fri Mar 3

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Adam Storeygard

Tufts University
Introduction to Web Scraping with R for the Social Sciences
Fri Feb 24

PSTC Seminar Room
Speakers:

Yi Qi

Brown University

Fall

Defining and Representing Spatial Data in the Social Sciences
Fri Nov 18

PSTC Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Matthew Martinez, Chris Graziul, Nate Frey

Brown University
Opportunities for Social Interaction: Measuring Segregation using Urban Commuting Data
Fri Oct 21

PSTC seminar room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Speakers:

Steven Farber

University of Toronto

2015-2016

Spring

The Pleiades Gazetteer Data Model: Going Off-Road in the Spatial and Digital Humanities

Fri Mar 25 to Tue Jul 12

PSTC Seminar room
Speakers:

Tom Elliott

NYU
The Map, the Grid, and the Politics of Space, 1915 – 2015
Fri Apr 8

PSTC Seminar room
Speakers:

Bill Rankin

Yale University
Architecture in Negative: Mapping Social Space at Carrizales, Peru Using Low Altitude Aerial Photography and Photogrammetry
Fri Feb 26

PSTC Seminar room
Speakers:

Parker VanValkenburgh

Brown University

Fall

Research/Design in the Spatial Humanities
Fri Nov 13
Speakers:

Erik Steiner

Stanford University
Space, Place, and the Humanities: The Emergence of the GeoHumanities
Fri Oct 23
Speakers:

Tim Cresswell

Northeastern University
Segregation as a Multiscalar Phenomenon and Its Implications for Neighborhood-Scale Research: The Case of South Seattle 1990–2010
Fri Oct 9
Speakers:

Christopher Fowler

Sun Pennsylvania State University

2014-2015

Spring

Intergenerational Neighborhood Attainment and the Legacy Effects of Racial Residential Segregation
Fri Mar 13
Speakers:

Jeremy Pais

University of Connecticut
A Spatially Varying Coefficient Model with Partially Unknown Proximity Matrix for the Detection of Glaucoma Progression Using Visual Field Data
Fri Feb 27
Speakers:

Joshua Warren

Yale University

Fall

Consuming urban living in ‘villages in the city’: Studentification in Guangzhou, China
Fri Dec 12
Speakers:

Shenjing He

Sun Yat-sen University
More Than Data : Working With Big Data For Civics
Fri Nov 7
Speakers:

Sarah Williams

MIT
S4/Political Science workshop on the spatial turn in political science
Fri Oct 17
Speakers:

Harvey Starr

University of South Carolina

Myron Orfield

University of Minnesota

Jude Hays

University of Pittsburgh
The Social Atlas of Europe: A Cartographic Story of a Continent United in Diversity
Fri Oct 10
Speakers:

Dimitris Ballas

University of Sheffield
Subways and Urban Growth: Evidence from Earth
Thu Sep 11
Speakers:

Matthew Turner

Brown University

2013-2014

Spring

Measuring Spatial Banking Competition
Sun Mar 16
Speakers:

David Glancy

Brown University
34.06N, -118.259W: A Thirdspace Perspective on the Redevelopment and Reuse of Downtown Los Angeles
Fri Mar 14
Speakers:

Stefano Bloch

Brown University
At the Starting Line: Poverty among Hispanic Babies in New Immigrant Destinations
Fri Feb 7
Speakers:

Daniel Lichter

Cornell University

Fall

The Neighborhood Quality of Subsidized Housing
Fri Nov 8
Speakers:

Emily Talen

Arizona State University
Exchange value vs. use value: Whither property-led urban development in post-colonial Hong Kong ?
Fri Sep 20
Speakers:

Mee Kam Ng

Chinese University of Hong Kong
User friendly software tools for modern spatial econometrics
Fri Sep 13
Speakers:

Luc Anselin

Arizona State University

2012-2013

Spring

The Geography of Disease Immunities and the African Slave Trade
Wed Apr 24
Speakers:

Elena Esposito

Brown University and the University of Bologna
Segregation, Race, and Ethnicity in American Cities, 1900-1930
Fri Apr 19
Speakers:

Allison Shertzer

University of Pittsburgh
High Stakes Choosing: Race, Place, and School Choice in Chicago
Tue Mar 19
Speakers:

Mary Pattillo

Northwestern University
Race, Class, and Geography in Neighborhood Migration
Fri Mar 8
Speakers:

Lincoln Quillian

Northwestern University
Emergent Ghettos: Black Residential Patterns in NY and Chicago, 1880-1940
Thu Feb 28
Speakers:

John Logan

Brown University

Fall

Urban Politics of Finance
Fri Dec 7
Speakers:

Kathe Newman

Rutgers University
Favelas at the Vanguard: Rethinking Our Assumptions in Sustainable Development
Mon Oct 22
Speakers:

Theresa Williamson

Catalytic Communities, Rio de Janeiro
Putting a Price on Politics as Usual: Using Spatial Optimization and GIS to Evaluate Rural Air Transport in the United States
Fri Sep 28
Speakers:

Tony Grubesic

Drexel University
Putting a Price on Politics as Usual: Using Spatial Optimization and GIS to Evaluate Rural Air Transport in the United States
Fri Sep 28
Speakers:

Tony Grubesic

Drexel University

2011-2012

Spring

Thinking in Generations: The Persistence of Neighborhood Inequality and Its Implications for Urban Policy.
Fri Apr 6
Speakers:

Patrick Sharkey

NYU
More Unequal, More Separate: Income Inequality and Income Segregation, 1970-2010
Fri Mar 16
Speakers:

Sean Reardon

Stanford University
Exploring Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhoods Using PySAL
Fri Mar 2
Speakers:

Serge Rey

Arizona State University

Fall

Mapping the CIA's Covert Suburbs
Fri Dec 9
Speakers:

Andrew Friedman

Haverford College
Implementing the Spatial Turn: Digital History and the Construction of Space
Fri Dec 2
Speakers:

Richard White

Stanford Univeristy
Learning About the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies from Urban Transport Innovations
Fri Nov 18
Speakers:

Nate Baum-Snow

Brown Univeristy
Land Lines: Where Property Meets Poetry; New Experiments in the Digital Geohumanities
Fri Nov 4
Speakers:

Sarah Luria

Holy Cross
Unpacking and Tracking the Mean Center of Population and the Hoover Index: Demographic Change and Recent Trends in the Geography of U.S. Settlement
Thu Oct 13
Speakers:

David A Plane

University of Arizona

2010-2011

Spring

Resource Management in Low-Income Settings: When Can Granting Cooperatives Property Rights be Successful?

Fri Feb 25 to Tue Mar 15

Speakers:

Sriniketh Nagavarapu

Department of Economics, Brown University
If Only We knew Where Each Person Lived ... Studying Residential Segregation with Historical Data
Thu Sep 29
Speakers:

John Logan

Brown Univeristy
The Political Geography of Welfare in Lebanon
Fri Apr 22
Speakers:

Melanie Cammett

Department of Political Science, Brown University
Navigating Urban Space: Housing the Poor in a Hope VI Era
Fri Mar 18
Speakers:

Kathryn Edin

Harvard Kennedy School
Railroads and American Economic Development: New Evidence
Fri Mar 11
Speakers:

Robert A. Margo

Department of Economics, Boston University
Faith, Treachery, and the Great River: Techniques and Tools for Exploring Spatial Processes, Patterns, and Relationships
Fri Feb 18
Speakers:

Timothy Hare

Department of Archaeology, Morehead State University
Neighborhood Mobility and Inequality in Multi-Ethnic America
Mon Feb 7
Speakers:

Van Tran
A Sustainable American Urbanism?
Thu Feb 3
Speakers:

Joseph Pierce
Situating Sustainability in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations
Mon Jan 31
Speakers:

Julie Sze
Waging War on the Landscape: Building Demolition and Land Clearance in Postwar America
Thu Jan 27
Speakers:

Francesca Ammon

Fall

Unbiased Indices of Uneven Distribution and Exposure: New Alternatives for Segregation Analysis
Fri Nov 19
Speakers:

Mark Fossett

Texas A&M University
Mapping Decline
Fri Nov 5
Speakers:

Colin Gordon

University of Iowa
Gender and the Neighborhood Location of Mixed-Race Couples
Fri Oct 29
Speakers:

Richard Wright

Dartmouth College

2009-2010

Spring

Passing the Line: The Strange Career of Guillermo Enrique Eliseo and of Borderlands History
Fri Apr 30
Speakers:

Karl Jacoby History

Brown University
A geographer’s analysis of reproductive health and cropped area
Thu Apr 29
Speakers:

Kathryn Grace

UC Santa Barbara
Demographic Profiling: Explaining the Red and the Blue in Presidential Elections
Tue Apr 27
Speakers:

Rachel Franklin

University of Maryland
Violent Spaces: Drug-Trafficking and State-Sponsored Protection Rackets in Mexico
Fri Mar 19
Speakers:

Rich Snyder

Political Science,Brown University
The Subprime Crisis and the Restructuring of the U.S. Housing Finance System
Fri Feb 26
Speakers:

Kevin Gotham

Sociology, Tulane University
Anticipating the Initial Release of ACS Five-Year Estimates: What Awaits Us and How Do We Make the Most of It?
Fri Feb 19
Speakers:

Paul Voss

Sociology, University of North Carolina
Recent Evolution of the American Community Survey and Some Discoveries to Date
Fri Feb 5
Speakers:

Linda Gage

Department of Finance, State of California
the 23rd Census: Controversies and Conflicts about Moving Power and Money
Fri Jan 29
Speakers:

Reynolds Farley

Sociology, University of Michigan

Fall

Social Altruism and the Good Community
Fri Dec 11
Speakers:

Rob Sampson

Sociology, Harvard University
Choosing Geographic Scales for Local Spatial Statistics
Fri Oct 30
Speakers:

Peter Rogerson Geography

University of Buffalo
Social Engineering in the Post-Apartheid City: The South African state and the quality of urban ‘community’
Fri Oct 30
Speakers:

Jeremy Seekings

Sociology, University of Capetown, South Africa
Global Neighborhoods: New Pathways to Diversity and Separation
Fri Sep 25
Speakers:

John Logan

Brown University

2008-2009

Spring

Mortality and Mental Health in Sumatra after the Tsunami
Thu Mar 12
Speakers:

Elizabeth Frankenberg

Duke University
Measuring segregation: from spatial, to local and individual
Fri Feb 20
Speakers:

David Wong

George Mason University
How Employers Use Space
Mon Feb 9
Speakers:

Roberto Fernandez

MIT
Dynamic Models of Race and Income Segregation
Mon Apr 14
Speakers:

Elizabeth Bruch

University of Michigan

Fall

Regional and Racial Differences in Violence
Fri Nov 21
Speakers:

Richard Felson

Pennsylvania State University, Department of Sociology
Brazilian Ethanol: A Gift or Threat?
Thu Nov 13
Speakers:

Dr. Sri Nagavarapu

Economics and Environmental Studies Brown University
Patterns of Segregation in the Paris Metropolis
Fri Oct 31
Speakers:

Edmond Preteceille

Sciences Po, Paris
Concentration and Deconcentration of Poverty, Threshold Effects, and the Implications for City Level Violent Crime
Tue Oct 14
Speakers:

John Hipp

School of Social Ecology, University of California at Irvine
Unsettled Settlements: The Temporal and Spatial Segregation of Migrant Filipina Hostesses in Tokyo
Fri Oct 10
Speakers:

Rhacel Parrenas

Brown University, Department of American Civilization
Advances in the Spatial Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Suburbanization
Fri Sep 26
Speakers:

Colin Polsky

Clark University, Department of Geography
Berlin in Transition: From a Politically to a Socially Divided City
Mon Sep 15
Speakers:

Christine Hannemann

Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Sociology

2007-2008

Spring

Poverty Neighborhoods and the Geography of Deprivation in Chinese Cities
Mon Apr 14
Speakers:

Fulong Wu

University of Cardiff
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide:The Collective Dynamics of Racial Dehumanization And Genocidal Victimization
Fri Apr 11
Speakers:

John Hagan

Sociology, Northwestern University
Social Area Analysis, Data Mining, and GIS
Mon Mar 24
Speakers:

Seth Spelman

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
WikiGIS and Its Application in New Orleans' Post-Katrina Rebuilding
Fri Mar 21
Speakers:

Xun Shi

Geography, Dartmouth College
Boundaries and Borderlands in GIS Research with Censuses
Wed Mar 19
Speakers:

Alistair Geddes

University of Dundee, Scotland
SPATIAL ANALYSIS WORKSHOP SERIES 3

Thu Mar 13 to Fri Mar 14

Speakers:

Peter J. Diggle Department of Medicine

Lancaster University
Geography and Local U.S. Growth
Sun Mar 2
Speakers:

Jordan Rappaport

Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, MO
A Satellite View of Human Activity Based on Nighttime Lights
Fri Feb 22
Speakers:

Chris Elvidge

NOAA Denver, CO

Fall

Social and Environmental Aspects of Peri-Urban Growth in Latin American Megacities
Mon Dec 3
Speakers:

Haroldo Torres

CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning)

John Sydenstricker-Neto

CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning)
Spatial Perspectives on Hazards Vulnerability Science
Fri Nov 30
Speakers:

Susan Cutter

Department of Geography and Director, Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, University of South Carolina
SPATIAL ANALYSIS WORKSHOP SERIES 2

Wed Nov 14 to Fri Nov 16

Speakers:

Brad Carlin

Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health , University of Minnesota
Spatial Process Model for Social Network Analysis
Fri Oct 26
Speakers:

Crystal Linkletter

S4 and Department of Biostatistics
Preferences for Residential Segregation in Europe
Fri Oct 12
Speakers:

Moshe Semyonov

Sociology, Tel Aviv University and University of Illinois, Chicago
Confronting the “Mass Way of Life” - East Harlem Public Housing and the Sources of the Revolt Against Modernist Planning and Urbanism
Fri Oct 5
Speakers:

Samuel Zipp

Urban Studies and American Civilization, Brown University
SPATIAL ANALYSIS WORKSHOP SERIES 1

Mon Sep 24 to Fri Sep 28

Speakers:

Tim Conley

Graduate School of Business , University of Chicago
Urban Transformations Conference
Wed Sep 26
Speakers:

Elizabeth Diller
New Orleans after Katrina: Alternate Visions of Justice
Thu Sep 13
Speakers:

John Logan

Sociology, Brown Univeristy

2006-2007

Spring

Is 'Liveable Metropolis' an Oxymoron in the Global South? Speculations on 21st Century Urban Trajectories
Mon May 14
Speakers:

Peter Evans

Department of Sociology University of California at Berkeley
Historical GIS and Great Plains Environmental History
Tue May 1
Speakers:

Geoff Cunfer

University of Saskatchewan
The Impact of Immigrants on New York City Politics
Fri Apr 6
Speakers:

John Mollenkopf

Department of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Urban Studies Conference
Fri Mar 9
Speakers:
The Intrametropolitan Spatial Division of Labor
Fri Mar 2
Speakers:

Richard Wright

Department of Geography, Dartmouth University
Inequality and Crop Production in Puerto Rico 1900?1920
Thu Mar 1
Speakers:

Katherine White

Department of Sociology, Brown University
Cycles of Urbanization: The Growth, Decline and Resurgence of U.S. Cities
Fri Feb 23
Speakers:

Robert Beauregard

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University
Immigrants and Neighborhoods of Concentrated Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation?
Fri Feb 16
Speakers:

Paul Jargowsky

University of Texas Dallas

Fall

Justice and Urban Redevelopment
Fri Dec 1
Speakers:

Susan Fainstein

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Using Spatial Dependence in Theory Construction
Fri Nov 10
Speakers:

Glenn Deane

Department of Sociology, University at Albany
Residential mobility and segregation in Athens: Questioning some traditional assumptions
Tue Oct 10
Speakers:

Thomas Maloutas

University of Thessaly, Greece
About 50 Years of Urban Critique: Doesn't Anything Good Ever Happen
Fri Sep 29
Speakers:

Harvey Molotch

Department of Sociology, New York University

2005-2006

Spring

Space as a Category of Analysis: New Perspectives

Fri Apr 7 to Sat Apr 8

Speakers:
Impacts of Disaster: Comparing Ecological and Social Resilience

Fri Mar 17 to Sat Mar 18

Speakers:
Social Capital Formation in Immigrant Neighborhoods: Chinatown and Koreatown in Los Angeles
Fri Mar 3
Speakers:

Min Zhou

University of California, Los Angeles

Fall

Unraveling the Neighborhood Effects and School Effects on Youth Behavior
Tue Nov 22
Speakers:

David Kirk
Back to the Farm: Lessons Learned from an Historical and Spatial Analysis of Agriculture and Population Dynamics
Mon Nov 21
Speakers:

Katherine White
Neighborhood Effects on Organizational Outcomes: Nonprofit Organizations and Philanthropic Foundations in Chicago
Thu Nov 17
Speakers:

Heather MacIndoe
Household Demography and Land Use/Land Cover in the Brazilian Amazon: Two Tests of the Household Life Cycle Model
Wed Nov 9
Speakers:

Leah VanWey
Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of “Resegregation” in Southern Schools
Fri Oct 21
Speakers:

Charles T. Clotfelter

Duke University
Moving to Opportunities: Internal Migration of Mexicans in the US
Fri Oct 7
Speakers:

Charles Zhang

Department of Sociology Brown University
Applied and Scientific GIS: A Tool for Today's Researcher
Fri Sep 16
Speakers:

Scott Bell

University of Saskatchewan

2004-2005

Spring

The Bum's Rush: Poverty and Mobility in the U.S., 1850-2000
Fri Apr 15
Speakers:

Joseph Ferrie

Department of Economics, Northwestern University

JosephFerrieCV.pdf
The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrate Industry
Thu Feb 10
Speakers:

Ryan, Stephen
Half a Loaf: The Partial Desegregation of American Public Schools
Thu Feb 10
Speakers:

John Logan

Department of Sociology Brown University

JohnLoganCV.pdf
Interconnection Pricing and Compatibility in Network Industries: ATM Networks in the Banking Industry
Fri Feb 4
Speakers:

Ishii, Joy
Identifying Social Interactions through Excess Variance Contrasts
Wed Feb 2
Speakers:

Graham, Bryan
The Effects of Changes in the Transportation Infrastructure on Suburbanization: Evidence from the Construction of the Interstate Highway System
Mon Jan 31
Speakers:

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel
The Role of Durable Goods in Household Water and Energy Consumption: The Case of Front Loading Clothes Washers
Fri Jan 28
Speakers:

Davis, Lucas
Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Relative Female Income on Sex Imbalance
Thu Jan 27
Speakers:

Qian, Nancy
Multivariate Lattice Models for Areal Data with Application to Multiple Disease Mapping
Tue Jan 25
Speakers:

Xiaoping Jin
U.S. Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Based Multinational Firms
Fri Jan 21
Speakers:

Hanna, Rema

Fall

200 years of land-use change in central New Hampshire: drivers and implications?
Fri Dec 3
Speakers:

Steve Hamburg

Brown University

Laura Schneider

Brown University
Residential Mobility Programs and Child Well-Being
Fri Nov 19
Speakers:

Greg Duncan

Northwestern University
What is Special about Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences?
Fri Oct 22
Speakers:

Arthur Getis

San Diego State University
Spatiotemporal modeling of PM2.5 data with missing values
Fri Oct 8
Speakers:

Richard Smith

University of North Carolina
Mobility Constraints and the Distributional Consequences of Particulate Matter
Fri Sep 24
Speakers:

Christopher Timmins

Duke University
Estimating Dynamic Local Interactions Models
Fri Sep 10
Speakers:

Tim Conley

University of Chicago

2003-2004

Spring

Separate But Unequal? Examining the Relationship Between Residential Segregation and Air Quality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Fri May 7
Speakers:

Rachel Morello-Frosch
Access to Social Services in Urban America
Fri Apr 23
Speakers:

Scott Allard
Advancing Segregation Measurement
Fri Apr 9
Speakers:

Michael White
Bayesian Factor Analysis for Spatially Correlated Data, with Application to Summarizing Area-Level Material Deprivation Using Census Data
Fri Mar 26
Speakers:

Joesph Hogan
The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship: Dynamic Patterns in Britain and Germany
Fri Mar 12
Speakers:

Andrew Foster

Naresh Kumar
The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship: Dynamic Patterns in Britain and Germany
Fri Feb 13
Speakers:

Alan Zuckerman